Triangular shipment Posted on 06 April 2023 Category : Import Triangular Shipment – An introduction. What is Triangular shipment? Who are the parties involved in a Triangular Shipment? How does triangular trade function? How many parties involved in a triangular trade minimum? How foreign exchange payments are accounted in Triangular business? There are different dimensions in the term ‘triangular shipment’. Here I am explaining about one of them. Let me explain Triangular Shipment with an example to make you easily understand. You are situated in Mumbai, India. You have obtained an order from a buyer called ABC from Yang Min, China. As per your contract with your buyer in China, you need to ship the goods to a party called XYZ New York, USA. Here, the purchase order from final buyer has been obtained by ABC from China and he procures goods from you in India. You will be shipping goods to the port of XYZ at New York. This is one of the examples of ‘triangular shipment’. I will explain once again to make easier on the above example of Triangular Shipment. As far as you are concerned, your buyer is ABC and you will receive foreign payment from your buyer ABC in China. All your accountability is with ABC only and you have no connection with XYZ. In turn, ABC will be receiving purchase order from XYZ. ABC receives amount of sale of goods also from XYZ. ‘Certificate of origin of goods under triangular shipment’ is obtained from the final manufacturer of goods, here in this case ‘you’ situated in India. I have written separate articles about Documentation procedures under Triangular Shipment and Payment procedures under Triangular Shipment. You can have a look in to the same to know more about Triangular Shipment in import export of international business. Read more Documentation for triangular shipment Bill of Lading procedures in triangular shipment What is switch Bill of Lading? 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An open logic proposal to WTO How to obtain a duplicate BL, if original bill of lading lost. How to obtain GSP - Certificate of Origin? How to obtain Phyto sanitary certificate. What is phytosanitary certification Comments Hari nair: On 21 January 2014 Hi I have customer who is doing triangular shipments.He is based in Mumbai and importing from Switzerland to Dubai.Everyhting is fine and we issue switch B/Ls for him but he is requsting us to issue a COO from malasia.Is this possible?? as per my shipping knowledge COO can be issued only from the manufaturing country.Here in this case from Switzerland. Do we have any other option to tackle this issue Awaiting yours. Hari Nair. Kumar, Mumbai: On 18 November 2014 Hi one of our customer need to do triangular shipment, he is situated in Germany and need to do the shipment to Africa, he is sourcing from India he had 10 to 20 suppliers from India, his intention is to do this triangular shipment as buyer console to his consignee in Africa. But for cost reduction he need to avoid switch BL's as it attracts cost's. Is there any way to avoid switch BL and to do triangular shipment by hiding the ultimate supplier and ultimate buyer Gulmira: On 18 June 2015 I buy material from India and want my customer doesn t see manufacturer details. Can we make Switch Certificate of Origin? If yes what are the rules? Md.Anwarul Islam: On 02 July 2015 Hi!I have a situation where one country(main buyer) wants to buy and deliver to a 2nd country ( final receiving country).From 3rd country(main communicator between main buyer and main manufacturer/supplier) wishes to do the business,who will procure(import) the goods from 4th country(main supplier) and request for shipment(export the goods to the 2nd country as mentioned earlier).Do this type of business can work,how the B/L will be issued.Here 3rd country will act as an importer(import goods from 4th country) but the goods will not enter in his own country and get the B/L from the exporter and make payment to them.Again 3rd country will send a 2(two) sets of B/L, one to the main buyer(1st country) for payments and for final receiving country(2nd country) to take the delivery of the goods.Finally 3(three) sets of B/L will be required here.In this event main buyer will make payments 1st(after getting of B/L) and the main manufacturer/supplier will get payment within 45 days after actual date of shipment. aresh: On 16 July 2015 i would like to know can a Indian certificate of origin can be issued. for a cargo which i have bought from ABC CHINA and i am selling the cargo XYZ USA. cargo will not touch Indian port & will travel directly from China to USA. Usha Chandran : On 15 October 2015 I work in a department which deals with Import & Export Clearance. And your information regarding the import & Export on the website had helped me a lot in my Job, Thanks to you. I have a clarification on Importing of Maps. we have one of the Customer who had imported Maps and wants to clear the shipment. he is an individual. Please advice how to proceed with this. Do we need to get a No Objection from any Department. Please guide me. Amit Sharma: On 29 October 2015 Dear sir, Can we do the triangular shipment via air mode, if yes then pleas suggest HAWB can be switch in air mode, Harsh Jain : On 20 April 2016 I have a query , the answer of which I was unable to find. online. Q . Around 2% of my shipment has some defects for which the buyer is asking for a credit note or replacement.I'm willing to accommodate this request.Please guide me on the steps to be taken from my end for the same i.e documentation, customs, bank etc. Rameez Raja: On 10 August 2016 My name is Rameez Raja and I have been in a bit of a fix and was doing some research and happened to read your articles. I understand that you are a very learned man with great knowledge and may be You can give me a piece of advice So my situation is like this. I am based out of India, Delhi and have registered export company also but along with this I have started trading goods from China and shipping to Malaysia, Singapore. So the goods will be manufactured in China and shipped directly to the party. Ofcourse I am the vendor and the POs from the buyer are all issued in my company name. The problem and the big question is goods exported from China need FormE/Certificate of origin. Now can shipper details in Form E different from BL because I plan to make a switch BL. Rahul: On 10 August 2016 THIS IS RAHUL FROM CHENNAI. I AM INTERESTED IN PHARMA EXPORT BUSINESS. I GOT NO CLUES ON HOW TO GET EXPORT ORDER FROM COUNTRIES ARE THERE ANY DEDICATED SITE THAT PROVIDE PLATFORM FOR IMPORT EXPORT. SD EXPORTS IMPORTS : On 08 April 2017 Dear Team, I got an order at Maldives, but the goods are at China. China party ready to supply to Maldives, But Maldives buyer made purchase order on my Indian company name. Guide me at the earliest sir. SUSHIL SINGAL: On 13 July 2017 I saw that all the discussions are with regards to sea shipments . In sea shipments , you switch B/L but my situation is with regards to air shipment . I do not want to let my buyer knows who is actual seller and actual seller should not know who is final buyer . How we can do this in case of Air shipment , how we can manage COO and all the other documents . Please advise Leonardo: On 28 August 2017 is triangle shipment still possible in vietnam ? we are 100% FDI foreign company in vietnam and the bank told us we can't do traignle shipment anymore thank you noyel john: On 01 September 2021 Hi i like to know more details in triangular trading.I am planning to buy shipment from company A in taiwan and need it to ship it to a Company B in Srilanka. I am form kerala,I need to send the payment from here to taiwan company A and i will receive the payment from Company B in Srilanka. Also i need to register IEC,GST etc.. all registration related to this.Can i get your contact details for getting more information on this. ahmed: On 04 July 2022 I am an Egyptian entrepreneur living in OMAN. I benefited a lot from reading your articles on your website and I would really like to thank you for your efforts. I recently read your article about triangle trade. Your explanation for switch B/L procedure was very clear. However, I need some clarity on the procedures used in triangle trade for other documents like certificate of origin & health certificate. How can we hide the identity of the real shipper & the real buyer to avoid knowing each other in those documents? pratik: On 05 July 2022 Recently we have received an order to sell some solar lights in Middle East. We already have a tie up with a manufacturer in China and want to directly ship the solar lights manufactured in China to Middle East. Can you please guide us as to how we can complete the above transaction. Wanted to know following things about above transaction: 1. Can we look at Switch Bale / Bill to mask my original manufacturer in China with our Final Customer in Middle East. 2. Also since the goods will be manufactured in China and Sold in Middle East - Do we still need to pay GST + Custom Duty on this product or we can simply pay tax on Sale Price - Buy Price of the Product. Can you please advise on how we can carry out the above transaction. ravinder: On 15 July 2022 We are a trading company based out of Hyderabad. we import industrila goods and sell in India to industrial plants. Some times we also import from Europe and export to other country like Saudiarabia. According to original plant we have to lift one consignment from Germany to India and then to Saudi, but due to urgency from customer, we have to choose any other quick way to save time. Is it possible to lift the materials from Germany and send to Saudi directly with our Invoice and other documents. pls clarify sir. tharun: On 16 July 2022 It was a pleasure reading through your online articles about handling documentations for a triangular export. We have entered in to a triangular export as the middle man and are uncertain about how to handle the requirement of COO and chambered invoice. - We (TASHE) get order from ABC in Saudi Arabia, and have passed the order to XYZ in China. - XYZ will manufacture the goods and will ship them directly to ABC in Saudi Arabia - XYZ will make a documents like CI, PL, BL, COO keeping them as exporter and Tashe as consignee and will send to us. - Once we receive the same, we will make new CI, PL and switch BL keeping Tashe as exporter and our customer ABC as consignee. - However we are not sure about the procedure for COO and chambered invoice. Can we get the COO also switched in India and get our invoice chambered in order to protect the terms and conditions between us and our supplier ABC in China. We want to clearly mention in our invoice that the goods are manufactured in China and COO to be made accordingly. shadab: On 16 July 2022 Eg: I am in India Mr. Z & I got export order of machine from Mr. X in England. I have a distributor Mr. Y in England, he will purchase the machine from America and supply it to Mr. X in England. Can this transaction be done by Mr. Z from india? neelesh: On 20 July 2022 As I am beginner I am seeking your esteemed advice for import export. Sir, I would like to buy products from China and export it to USA directly from China. I have proprietorship firm in Ahmedabad with GST no. What procedure to follow to make above mentioned trade and what documents/ permissions required from government of India.